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Thursday, April 15, 2010

VATICAN CITY, 15 APRIL 2010 (VIS) - Last Tuesday, 6 April, an accord between the Holy See and Lower Saxony was signed in Hanover, Germany, modifying the Concord of 26 February 1965.

Archbishop Jean-Claude Perisset, apostolic nuncio to Germany, signed as plenipotent emissary on behalf of the Holy See, and Minister-President Christian Wulff signed for Lower Saxony.

The communique reads that, "the accord modifies Article 6 of the addendum to the accord between the Holy See and Lower Saxony and regulates the juridical position of some Catholic schools administered by the diocese of Hildesheim, Osnabruck, and Munster en ese Land."